" Andover and its A Neighbourhood." 



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alone be visited, other intended halts having* been necessarily omitted: 

 and then the party returned to Andover by rail, in time to disperse 

 over North and South Wilts and elsewhere by the last trains from 

 Andover Junction ; carrying* with them, we feel sure, a lively 

 recollection of the hospitalities of Andover, and of the success of the 

 Andover Meeting-. 



This very brief outline of a most interesting* day's excursion would 

 seem unsatisfactory, but that it will be supplemented, in an after 

 page of the Magazine, by Mr. Clutterbuek's general description of 

 Silchester, mentioned above, as well as by some description of the 

 Vyne, by no less competent an exponent than the courteous owner. 



"^titofar imir its Jagkw|oo^/' 



By the Eev. C. Colliek, M.A., F.S.A., 



Vicar of Andover, and Pretident of the Andover Archaeological Society. 

 (Read before the Society at the Meeting at Andover, August 15th, 1883.) 



,HE name of our town, Andover, is probably from Dwfr — the 

 Celtic word for water — pronounced Doover, and the prefix 

 an. This prefix may have been derived in this way. There was a 

 great king of East Anglia named Anna, son of Eni ; and, as Wilkes, 

 the Editor of Woodward's " History of Hants/'' states the case, 

 " Kenwalh, King of the West Saxons, who was driven out of his 

 kingdom by King Penda, took refuge with Anna, and probably, 

 therefore, Kenwalh gave a grant of land in this district to Anna on 

 the return of the former to his kingdom. It is a fact that the 

 country around here was called the An country and the word enters 

 into the structure of many names of places in this district, as Abbots 

 Ann, Anton, Enham, and others."" The Saxon name is Andefer ; and 

 in Domesday Book we have Andovere. In many later documents 

 we have Andever. 



Our town is so near Wilts that we come within the range of its 

 history. The prehistoric remains of the east part of that county are 

 to some extent the same as ours. The ancient pit-dwellers near 

 Redenham Park would frequent the borders of both counties. The 



